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The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.
William Allen White
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William Allen White
Age: 75 †
Born: 1868
Born: February 10
Died: 1944
Died: January 31
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You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.
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In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
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Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.
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The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
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Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
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Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
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Dip your pen into your arteries and write.
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Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
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You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.
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The facts fairly and honestly presented truth will take care of itself.
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